Daaamn. Cgak... Embree.. Anthony Green... Craig Owens... Steve Choi... Such a stacked band. Rx Bandits will always be one of my favorite bands of all time
Position | Name/Band | Animal Vocals: Rich Balling (RX Bandits) | Nightingale Lead Guitar: Matt Embree (RX Bandits) | Walrus Drums: Chris Tsagakis (RX Bandits) | Lynx Guitar: Randy "R2K" Strohmeyer (Finch) | Tiger Bass: Derek Doherty (Finch) | Tortoise Vocals: Anthony Green (Circa Survive) | Skunk Vocals Rich Zahniser (The Hippos) | Armadillo Vocals Matthew Kelly (The Autumns) | Llama Musicians on the tiger and the duke ep
Biggest bummer of all my concert ventures is getting tickets for them in 2019 and then having to travel for work the day of their show. Still an amazing band!
I assumed prior to watching that Craig Owens was going to be the high one, but Anthony Green is on something else. Lovely performance, though Craig sounded much, much better on the rerelease
I think you guys have it backwards. What makes this performance special is that Craig Owens is in it. It’s live and suppose to sound like that. Hands down the best version of this song
Craig Owens is awful dude. He sounds like a complete amateur next to Anthony Green. There is a reason Craig holds the mic so far from his face, he's doing us all a favor... nice guy.
This was a project group. They couldn’t stay together for legal reasons, since they were all under contract with different companies. Which is why they’re not formally credited on the albums but only as their animal counterparts. I believe they had to get special permission to do these limited live shows.
Great performance. Saw tsoaf last year at the house of blues in Orlando and it was even better. They’ve only gotten tighter and more talented with time. Craig’s performance was a little weak here I thought tho.
I don't get the hate on Craig Owens, I think he did a fine job. I'm more noticing how much he copies almost verbatim Johnny Whitney of the Blood Brother's stage presence. Like, holy crap. It's like he took stage pose lessons from the guy.
Craig Owens did good in my opinion. People should stop saying that he butchered this song, because I bet you anything that the rest of the group that played this show picked him to perform it over the singer from The Autumns. Geeze
I don't think it's his ability to perform that people really take issue with, everyone knows he's a good vocalist (even though he was off key on the initial release version). It's his drama-queen "pet my hair as I strut around worrying about how I look" attitude throughout the DVD combined with the fact that he seems to have contributed less to the creative process that really bothers punk fans, anthony is just simple and committed to what it is that HE wants to do, he's concerned more with being an a artist than a performer, which naturally makes the performance BETTER for people with similarly genuine interest. That's all. I could be wrong and totally misjudging craig, but I don't think I am. That said, I fucking love his solo track, but that was on the second record right? Can't remember.
+Ryan Utterback (Polyrhythem) dumbest reason to hate anyone. Freddy Mercury by your opinion is put into that same point and so are tons of other great vocalist. all these dudes are haters and just need to admit they hate Craig purely on the fact that tons of girls found him attractive so they feel threatened by him. its so childish to sit back and be overweight and hate on another person because they have a slender build and weird mannerisms while performing on a stage in front of others. so easy to sit back and judge.
Christ. I have no history with Craig Owens, but he really fucks up his vocals consistently here. That wail at 6:06 was totally uncalled for and didn't mesh a bit with the other half of the vocals. Its a real shame considering all of the instruments were on fucking point consistently. Real shame we couldn't get Rich for this one.
